WGBH SPECIAL SERIES

RECOGNIZING BRUCE

An estimated 15,482 homeless people eke out an often-solitary existence on town and city streets across Massachusetts. About 20 percent of them are veterans. One of them is a former army soldier named Bruce Stuart.

Three years ago,I stopped into a cafe in Cambridge and struck up a conversation with a man sitting alone on a bench. It was Bruce, and he was making drawings of the world around him -- or at least the world as he saw it. That conversation led to more like it, and to the revelation of a complex human story.

Part One: A Man Without A Home
Jan. 19, 2010

Part Two: Enduring Street Life Through Art
Jan. 20, 2011

Part Three: A Home For Bruce And His Art